Death Star (disambiguation)

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Death Star may refer to:

• Death Star, a giant military space station in the fictional Star Wars universe
  • Death Star (novel), Star Wars novel
• Death Star (business) a fraudulent business strategy used by Enron to manipulate California's energy markets
• The NOVA episode called "Death Star" that discusses gamma ray bursts
• In the novel Virtual Light, "Death Star" was the Los Angeles Police Department's unofficial nickname for their surveillance and communications satellite.
• Death Star (ILM) The render farm of Industrial Light and magic.

Death Star could also be the nickname of:

• The corporate logo of AT&T from 1984 to 1999
• The Gannett corporate logo, especially its use in the late 1980s by television station WUSA
• Nemesis, a hypothetical star theorized to cause periodic extinctions on Earth
• IBM Deskstar hard drives, particularly the unreliable 75GXP and 60GXP models
• The British military base RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands
• The target chamber of the National Ignition Facility
• Mimas (moon), a moon of Saturn which coincidentally resembles the Star Wars Death Star
• Ghroth, a Cthulhu mythos deity
• Deathstars, a Swedish industrial metal band
• xDEATHSTARx, a band

See also Star Destroyer